Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL LEE, OE GALEsBUEG, ILLINOIS.

EIVlPFOVED` WASHING-MACHINE.-

Specifcation forming part of Letters Patent N0. 4l,l9, dated March 8, 1864.

To all whom it may concern: v Beit knownu that I, JOEL LEE, of Galesburg Knox county, and State of Illinois, have in- Vented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and eXact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had tothe anncxed drawings, making a part of this speciiation, in which- Figure l represents a vertical section of my machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of segment and pinion. F ig. 3 represents a vertical section of the lever and segment.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of certain devices for cleansing clothes.

In the annneXed drawings, B represents the tub; A, the pedestal placed in the center of K represents the yoke, which is fastened to G, the top of the tub. The yoke is placed in a vertical position, and has a projection at top with a hole through it, into which the upper end of shaft D works. The lower end of shaft D is furnished with a journal that plays in the top of pedestal A.

E represents a pinion fastened near the upper end of shaft D, receiving its motion from the cogged segment H, to which thelever F is attached. v

I represents the socket fastened to the side of segment H, and intended to receive the end of lever F.

C represents a eross-bar, of which thereare two, crossing each other at right angles and penetrated by the lower end of shaft D. The cross-bars C work near the inner surface of top G, and are penetrated near their ends and at right angles by the rods M, two rods being on each cross-bar, the object of these rods being tol agitate the clothes.

In Operating my machine, the lever F is worked with a reciprocating motion, so as to change the current of water in the tub, and thus keep theclothes in a constant state of motion. l

It will be observed that the pedestal answers the valuable purpose of keeping the clothes from the center, and thus exposil g them to the full centrifugal force of the water, whereby they are cleansed with the least possible degree of friction.

Having thus described my machine, what I claim, and desire to sec'ure by Letters Patent, 1s-

rlhe pedestal A, the shaft D, the segment H, the pinion E, the yoke K, the cross-bars C, and the rods M, the whole constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

Witnesses: JOEL LEE.

H. H. LEE, GEORGE LEE. 

